when referring to yourself in your head, what pronoun do you use?
first person (“i need to wash the dishes”)
second person (“you need to wash the dishes”)
third person (“they need to wash the dishes”)
plural (“we need to wash the dishes”)
i don’t think in words
extra secret answer (explain in tags)
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Yuka Orihara/Juho Pirinen (FIN)
2025 World Championship Free Dance (110.74)
#ice dancing#please someone tell me where the music is from
I know it’s from the play A Chorus Line, but I don’t know which cast/recording. If that’s helpful. :)
Are you able to sleep through the whole night (if you're getting more than six hours of sleep)?
Yes (explain HOW in the tags pls)
No (do people actually sleep thru the night? thought that was a myth)
Bald/Nuance answer
Being really into Frankenstein while at the same time being Chinese is so funny because every time Lord Byron gets brought up, the way his name is pronounced always makes me think of the word 白人 (bái rén), which translates into “white guy”. Lord White Guy.
Anyone else get screwed over by worLdle's April fools joke this morning
Like I figured out what they were doing and put in the answer and it came up as incorrect. Messaged my sister and she's like oh I think it's [redacted] and I'm like no? And she's like yes and sends me a screenshot of her completed game w it as the right answer and a message saying 'haha you solved our little joke' so I'm there like ohh ok it's just bullying me personally then
@leaving-earth requested the least seen movies. So here we have a list of the top 100 films that tumblr users reported as having heard of but not having seen per results on @haveyouseenthismovie-poll.
TW: A couple of films famous for racism are on this list so please enter at your own risk.
It would be funny if nuclear waste warning messages become an attraction for future historical linguists.
I mean look at this thing:
A parallel text in 7 languages, with 4 different scripts between them! And pictograms! All designed to be preserved intact!
maybe nothing of value to you is here
That is legitimately a massive problem that the nuclear waste warning projects are aware of and trying desperately to counteract.
Like, every post about them on tumblr going “lmao let’s be real, if I saw this shit I would stop at nothing to explore it” is highlighting the central conceit of the yucca mountain project.
The project is VERY aware of humanity’s tendency to explore, and the people involved are tormented constantly by the fact that ANYTHING they do to indicate “this specific place is extremely deadly and there’s nothing valuable here, GO AWAY” is going to become a fucking MAGNET for treasure hunters, explorers, adventurers, mystery enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists…like, the MOMENT it’s discovered, people will flood that place.
That’s what makes the project so fascinatingly difficult! There’s so much they have to convey, but at the same time, they have to do so without making the site itself interesting in any way, and without making it significant. Many possible warnings don’t incorporate a message at all, focusing instead on simply making the site as ugly, inconvenient, and unimportant-looking as possible so that it’s just never disturbed because nobody is interested in getting close. (It’s why seemingly crazy ideas like the color-changing cat priesthood are actually more viable than the seemingly “practical” example above, which still depends on written warnings guaranteed to be extremely interesting to future humans AND depends on the idea that those future humans will be able to decipher any of our languages. The most viable ideas focus on exploiting superstition and the subconscious, rather than LITERALLY trying to communicate “This place is not a place of honor” etc in as many words. Those are general ideas to be gotten across, not a script.)
The impossible catch-22 of the nuclear waste warning projects is that they absolutely MUST communicate the level of danger and the importance of keeping your distance…while also being acutely aware that warnings on the walls of ancient burial sites about the horrible curses that would afflict anyone who disturbed them did jack-fuck all to dissuade archaeologists.
Anything we do to make the warning seem important will guarantee it’s disregarded, but if we fail to make the warning unmistakable enough, we’re responsible for whatever happens to the humans ten thousand years in the future who suffer from our mistakes.
If the area is to become unappealing why not put a landfill over it. To get to the death rocks you’ll have to dig through undecayed cabbage
See above re: archeologists. Who just LOVE garbage dumps for what they can learn about people’s day-to-day lives.
‘And there’s the sign, Ridcully,’ said the Dean. ‘You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says “Do not, under any circumstances, open this door”?’
‘Of course I’ve read it,’ said Ridcully. ‘Why d’yer think I want it opened?’
‘Er … why?’ said the Lecturer in Recent Runes.
‘To see why they wanted it shut, of course.’ *
* This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.
– Terry Pratchett - Hogfather
I can’t belive they just dropped “color-changing cat priesthood” with zero explanation, so I googled it and here you go:
What I find extra funny about the Pratchett quote was he was the press office for a nuclear power plant before he was a full time author.
I’m convinced that the nuclear waste warning concept is doomed to failure, because the problem isn’t communicating the issue, the problem is people believing the message enough to act on it. And *gestures at the current state of misinformation and disinformation and general madness* people have trouble distinguishing between true and false info as it is. There would always, always, always be SOMEONE who didn’t believe the warning. And think about the purpose of the warning! It’s supposed to be there as a failsafe if all current understanding is lost. How many more people will ignore a warning from a long-lost culture with unknown credibility?
A possibly more useful message to encode would be “now that you’ve exposed yourself to radiation like an idiot and found out that we knew what we were talking about, here are your survival odds and here’s what you can do to improve them”.
